Tag Archives: web

Working with Web Curator Tool (part 1)

Keen readers may recall a post from April 2008 about my website-archiving forays working with Web Curator Tool, the workflow database, used for programming Heritrix, the crawler which does the harvesting of websites. Other UKWAC partners and myself have since found that Heritrix sometimes has a problem, described by some as ‘collateral harvesting’. This means [...]

Hot off the preservation press: JISC-PoWR and the Beagrie Survey

We were pleased to have finally made available version 1.0 of the JISC PoWR Handbook. The Handbook is the result of our extensive work with UKOLN on the JISC Preservation of Web Resources project, which included three hugely valuable workshops, and extensive discussion on the PoWR blog. In the Handbook we’ve tried to cover a [...]

Digital preservation in a nutshell, part II

As Richard noted in Part I, digital preservation is a “series of managed activities necessary to ensure continued access to digital materials for as long as necessary.” But what sort of digital materials might be in scope for the PoWR project?
We think it extremely likely that institutional web resources are going to include digital materials [...]

Digital preservation in a nutshell (Part I)

One of the goals of PoWR is to make current trends in digital preservation meaningful and relevant to information professionals with the day-to-day responsibility for looking after web resources. Anyone coming for the first time to the field of digital preservation can find it a daunting area, with very distinct terminology and concepts. Some of [...]